while im a huge proponent of freedom of speech, and yes it is within his rights to do the things he did, i find it kind of ironic for him to then turn around and plead not to be outed about it. would he have been compassionate if a girl who was posted on one of his forums asked him to take down the pictures? i presume not. if you are going to go down this road you should really accept that inevitably, if you get big enough, someone WILL out you.

There's a load of outrage on reddit over what Chen did. People there seem to think that just because they didn't give their e-mail that should somehow grantee them anonymity. Aside from any moral implication of this story, it's interesting to me because it's probably shattered a lot of people's expectations about the separation between their on and off line identities.

There's a load of outrage on reddit over what Chen did. People there seem to think that just because they didn't give their e-mail that should somehow grantee them anonymity. Aside from any moral implication of this story, it's interesting to me because it's probably shattered a lot of people's expectations about the separation between their on and off line identities.

I agree with this. Real talk, there is no such thing as true anonymity. The closest thing on the intrawebz is 4chan and we all know that the mods there can identify posters by IP and what a shithole that place is. Forget any forum that requires you sign up with an email and a username.

TBH, I think that this whole violentacrez thing could be taken as a good thing because it shows that sometimes, the consequences would never be the same.